Contemporaries of the Jazz Guitar | 
 enlarge | Artists: Al Viola, Johnny Smith
Label: FIVEFOUR
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Sales Rank: 53225
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5013929312821
ASIN: B001B1QUFG
Release Date: September 16, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Alone Together - Al Viola, Schwartz, Arthur | | • | Warm Valley - Al Viola, Ellington, Duke | | • | I Get a Kick out of You - Al Viola, Porter, Cole | | • | Don't Blame Me - Al Viola, McHugh, Jimmy | | • | Cheek to Cheek - Al Viola, Berlin, Irving | | • | My Romance - Al Viola, Rodgers, Richard | | • | I'll Remember April - Al Viola, Raye, Don | | • | How Long Has This Been Going On - Al Viola, Gershwin, George | | • | Nocturne - Al Viola, Troup, Bobby | | • | Yesterdays - Al Viola, Kern, Jerome | | • | Imagination - Al Viola, VanHeusen, Jimmy | | • | My Old Flame - Al Viola, Johnston, Arthur | | • | It Never Entered My Mind - Al Viola, Rodgers, Richard | | • | Pawn Ticket - Al Viola, Bryant, Ray | | • | Black Is the Colour (Of My True Love's Hair) - Al Viola, Traditional | | • | Montage - Al Viola, Smith, Johnny | | • | Lover - Al Viola, Rodgers, Richard | | • | The Maid with Flaxen Hair - Al Viola, Debussy, Claude | | • | Body and Soul - Al Viola, Green, Johnny | | • | Hello, Young Lovers - Al Viola, Rodgers, Richard | | • | The Boy Next Door - Al Viola, Martin, Hugh | | • | Deep Night - Al Viola, Valee, Rudy | | • | East of the Sun - Al Viola, Bowman, Brooks |
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Album Description
2008 release featuring the first solo guitar album from Jazz great Al Viola (originally released in 1957) plus historic recordings from fellow Jazz guitarist Johnny Smith. Though working independently, both Al Viola and Johnny Smith brought to their solo recordings a similar kind of hushed intimacy, a close-up magic that owed as much to their mastery of classical forms as of Jazz. Both possessed formidable techniques, but each realized that it was better kept in check and used for deeper purposes than merely dazzling the listener. The result was a Chamber Jazz whose minimalist aesthetic, while still allowing scope for improvisation, suggested the monastic intensity of a concert hall performance more than the vibe of a sweaty Jazz club. While Viola is well-known as having been Frank Sinatra's guitarist for twenty-five years, Smith - described by Barney Kessel as "an extraordinary virtuoso" - wrote 'Walk Don't Run' and with Stan Getz created one of the biggest selling Jazz records of all time in 'Moonlight In Vermont'. Fivefour.
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